Esther Wojcicki

Esther Wojcicki Chair of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons and Journalism/English teacher at Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA for the past 25 years. Built the journalism program from a small group of 20 students in 1985 to one of the largest in the nation including 350 students, two additional journalism teachers, and five award-winning journalism electives: newspaper (The Campanile) , magazine (Verde), online (www.voice.paly.net), television (InFocus), and Viking, a sports magazine. Selected by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing as 2002 California Teacher of the Year. Over the past 20 years, the publications have won Gold and Silver Crowns from Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the PaceMaker Award and Hall of Fame Award from National Scholastic Press, and best in nation from Time Magazine in 2003. The website was honored with two Webby Awards in 2005. She is also President of the Friends of the Lurdes Mutola Foundation to support girls' education in Mozambique. She is also a consultant for Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Hewlett Foundation. She is married to Stanford University Physics Professor Stanley Wojcicki, and mother of three grown daughters, Susan, Janet and Anne, and seven grandchildren. Her daughter Anne is the co-founder of 23andMe, a personal genetics company.three daughters, Susan, Janet and Anne. Her daughter Anne is CEO of 23andMe and married to Google founder Sergey Brin.